District: 8
Federal Reserve Bank of: St. Louis

Filings received during the week ending November 4, 2006

Notice by the Pitchford Stock, L.P., Nashville, Illinois, and Sheila R. Burcham, Nashville, Illinois, as general partner, to gain control of Community Bancshares, Inc., Irvington, Illinois.

Newspaper:

Not available

Federal Register:

11/06/2006

DEWITT FIRST BANKSHARES CORPORATION

* 3A3

DeWitt First Bankshares Corporation, DeWitt, Arkansas, to acquire 100 percent of First National Bank of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Arkansas.

Newspaper:

11/17/2006

Federal Register:

11/16/2006

FIRST BANKS, INC.

* 3A3

First Banks, Inc., Hazelwood, Missouri, to acquire an additional 4.09 percent, for total direct and indirect control of 24.99 percent, of Community West Bancshares, Goleta, California, and thereby indirectly acquire Community West Bank, National Association, Goleta, California.

Newspaper:

12/06/2006

Federal Register:

12/07/2006

FIRST STATE BANKING CORP

CIC

Notice by William Harvey Bowen, Little Rock, Arkansas, individually and as part of the Blanchard Family Group to gain control of First State Banking Corporation, Russellville, Arkansas. The Blanchard Family Group consists of Charles H. Blanchard and Cynthia B. Blanchard of Russellville, Arkansas, Charles B. Blanchard, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Mary Patricia Blanchard Hardman and William H. Bowen, of Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Blanchard Family Living Trust, Janive S. Blanchard, Trustee, North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Newspaper:

11/06/2006

Federal Register:

11/14/2006

MAINSTREET BANK

* 18C* Branch

Mainstreet Bank, Ashland, Missouri, to purchase the assets and assume the liabilities of the Prairie Home branch of Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Prairie Home, Missouri, and to retain the acquired facility as a branch.

Availability of CRA Public Evaluations

The Community Reinvestment Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977 (12 U.S.C. 2901) and is implemented by Regulation BB (12 CFR 228). The regulation was revised in May 1995.

The CRA requires that each depository institution's record in helping meet the credit needs of its entire community be evaluated periodically. That record is taken into account in considering an institution's application for deposit facilities.

A copy of an institution's CRA evaluation may be obtained directly from the institution or Reserve Bank.

Federal bank regulators use the following performance levels to rate an institution's performance under CRA: